Six Nations 2017

[Stargazer]

@mariner4life Well spotted; that's what you get if you keep all your "European stuff" in one file. Fixed it.

I'm one of those people who only sleep 4 hours most nights. How come you spotted that mistake at 1am? :thinking:

[Snowy]

@taniwharugby said in Six Nations 2017:

Oh the game, some game the ABs allegedly played there in 1999...after the game, There was another group of fans that were cnuts, who were also not involved in that game....

I was at that one as well. S African Boers / Bores sitting behind me and the wife and it took all of my self control not to smack the pricks. Just vulgar, rude and offensive.They had lost the day before to the Larkham drop goal and were more than a little bitter. Every nation has knobs I guess, and fortunately the French blokes next to us put an end to it and were most sympathetic to a Kiwi's misery.

My experiences at Twickenham with English fans have generally been good.

[mariner4life]

@Stargazer because that's 10pm here

[Crucial]

I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.

[gollum]

@Crucial

Yeah, he was pretty average, flipside is when Sarries won the Heiniken Cup last year he was MOTM in the Quarter, the Semi & the Final..

So he can turn it on. Personally I think the kids an absolute superstar

[Derm McCrum]

@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:

I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.

So it just wasn't me then....

[Kruse]

@Pot-Hale said in Six Nations 2017:

@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:

I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.

So it just wasn't me then....

That Eddie has an electric probe up inside of?

[Derm McCrum]

@Kruse said in Six Nations 2017:

@Pot-Hale said in Six Nations 2017:

@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:

I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.

So it just wasn't me then....

That Eddie has an electric probe up inside of?

Yes. Or Mark McCall needs to replace the batteries in his one..

[Stargazer]

[Bones]

No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?

[Crucial]

@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:

No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?

Yep.

WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY

*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri Williams

There are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*

[Catogrande]

@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:

@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:

No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?

Yep.

WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY

*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri Williams

There are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.

[Crucial]

@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:

@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:

@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:

No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?

Yep.

WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY

*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri Williams

There are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.

FIIK.

Welsh logic?

[Catogrande]

@Crucial Ah. That explains a lot. Thanks.

[Derm McCrum]

@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:

@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:

@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:

No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?

Yep.

WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY

*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri Williams

There are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.

They signed overseas before Gatland's Law was introduced so are not affected. http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/37316886

[Catogrande]

@Pot-Hale OK, thanks PH, that makes sense of a sort.

[Stargazer]

[Stargazer]

French squad for the 6 Nations:

[gollum]

@Stargazer

Their Kiwi / Samoan prop (Atonio) is 6'5 & 155kg. I guess he balances out no Bastaraud

[Derm McCrum]

Joe Schmidt looking to extract the most from Six Nations squad hopefuls with his squad announcement not named until Sunday - after the final round of Heineken Cup matches in which Leinster, Munster and Connacht are competing for quarterfinal places and ideally home ground advantage.